Exploration, adventure and distinguished athletic performance is reserved for a select number of very unique individuals. North of Denmark is delighted to be the watch of choice for these very elite individuals.

FELICITY ASTON
Polar Explorer | Author | Speaker

Felicity Aston has spent the last ten years seeking out irresistible challenges in some of the world's wildest and most extraordinary places.
At 23, Felicity left the UK to spend three years living and working in the Antarctic as a meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey.
At 27, she was part of the first all-female team to complete the Polar challenge, a 360-mile endurance race across the Canadian Arctic.
A year later, Felicity led the first British women's crossing of the Greenland ice-sheet.
She is currently leading the Commonwealth Women's Antarctic Expedition, an international expedition, to the South Pole.
www.felicityaston.co.uk

RAY ZAHAB
Ultra-Marathon Athlete | Adventurer

Ray has established himself as one of the world’s premier endurance athletes, having already run across portions of the Sahara. He was a two-time competitor in the world’s toughest foot race – the Marathon des Sables – and he placed 3rd in the Trans 333, where he covered 333 kilometers of Niger’s Ténéré Desert non-stop.
On January 7th, 2009, he completed an on-foot trek from Hercules Inlet on the Ronne Ice Shelf to the South Pole in a record time of 33 days, 23 hours and 55 minutes. He was accompanied by fellow Canadians Kevin Vallely and Richard Weber.
Starting March 2010 Ray Zahab and Kevin Vallely will be teaming up with one of Asia’s premiere endurance athletes Kevin Lin to push their limits and run across Lake Baikal in Siberia making this winter traverse in 10 days or less, while pulling sleds that will contain everything the team needs to survive the length of the expedition journey some 650kms down the length of its frozen (and sometimes not so frozen) surface.
www.rayzahab.com

RIPLEY DAVENPORT
Adventurer | Humanitarian | Speaker

Ripley Davenport is best known for his demanding expeditions to the isolated areas of the world, notably accomplished solo and unassisted without any machine or animal but on foot by hauling or carrying all his equipment.
In 1998, Ripley completed a solo trek across the Karakum Desert in 21 days with one water resupply. Then in the same year, Ripley successfully crossed the Namib Desert, solo and unassisted, with two camels in 82 days.
In 1999, he spent two weeks in the company of the Air Tuareg of Niger. The purpose was to learn about desert living and their culture. Since then Ripley has been fixated with desert exploration and adventure and he intends on traversing several of the world's largest and isolated deserts.
Ripley will attempt the first recorded solo and unassisted traverse across the vast landmass of Mongolia, on foot from east to west, starting in April 2010.
The Expedition will involve walking 1700 miles / 2750 km’s across the Eastern Mongolian Steppe, Gobi Desert and the Altai Mountain Range, while hauling provisions and equipment weighing in excess of 200kg in a wheeled trailer, specifically designed for the journey, in 90 days or less. “It stands to become the longest solo and unassisted walk ever completed".
www.mongolia2010.com

ERIC LARSEN
Polar Explorer | Environmental Activist

Modern-day explorer, dog musher, adventure racer and educator, he has spent the past 12 years of his life adventuring in some of the most remote and wild places left on earth. Totaled, Eric has traveled enough wilderness miles to circle the globe over two times.
On January 3rd 2009, Eric successfully led an international team to the South Pole - covering nearly 600 miles in 41 days. Eric is now one of only a few Americans in to have skied to both the North and South Poles.
In 2006, Eric and Lonnie Dupre completed the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole. During this journey, the duo pulled and paddled specially modified canoes over 600 miles of shifting sea ice and open ocean. Eric's other expeditions include a 700-mile dog sled journey through northern Ontario, a six week dog sled journey in the barren lands of the Canadian Arctic, several training trips to Hudson Bay and countless dog sled races. He has also summited Mt. McKinley, ridden his bike across the United States, been a back country ranger in Alaska, a white water canoe guide in Colorado and wilderness trip leader in Hawaii.
In 2008, Eric was elected as one of Outside Magazine's Eco All Stars. He was also inducted as a member of the prestigious Explorer's Club based in New York City. A gifted communicator, Eric travels extensively giving motivational and educational lectures to schools, universities, non profit organizations and corporate groups.
In November 2009, Eric and his team members will travel to the North Pole, South Pole and the summit of Everest all in one year. The 'Save the Poles' expedition will journey to these last frozen places in attempt to tell their amazing story while promoting clean energy solutions to the problem of Climate Change.
www.ericlarsenexplore.com